Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell — without damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron beams and purple-tinted microbes.

By advancing a method called ice lithography, the team was able to etch incredibly small, detailed patterns directly onto fragile biological surfaces.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is a rocket used for both human and nonhuman space missions, and since 2010, the rocket has been launched over 400 times. Motivated by noise concerns from residents in Ventura County, a team of researchers from BYU and California State University, Bakersfield collected 132 measurements from sonic booms over an area of 200 square miles during the summer of 2024. By collecting data on multiple qualities of the Falcon 9 sonic booms, researchers can help discern how different launch-day variables affect a boom’s impact.

Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking mechanism in waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) that breaks conventional limits on quantum emitter lifetimes. By leveraging non-Markovian dynamics and delayed feedback, the team demonstrated a sub-local decay rate—where the total decay rate of emitters drops below their intrinsic free-space decay rate. This energy quantum confinement effect dynamically traps photons within the waveguide, enabling unprecedented suppression of local dissipation. The discovery opens new pathways for robust quantum memory, high-fidelity metrology, and scalable quantum networks.